Keywords
Sloping Landscape
Agricultural Adaptation
Socio-Cultural Adaptation
Tengger Farmers.
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Abstract
This study aims to explore the perceptions, experiences, and adaptations of the Tengger farming community in dealing with climate vulnerability and landslide risks. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach in Argosari Village, East Java. Data were collected through field observation and in-depth interviews with nine informants selected through purposive and snowball sampling, then analyzed using the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña. Three forms of socio-cultural adaptation were identified. Cognitively and psychologically, farmers rationalize landslide fear through nrimo, which supports pragmatic resilience. Physically and spatially, early habituation and embodied knowledge enable farmers to integrate steep hazard zones into daily farming and childcare. Ecologically, farmers read heat, rain, and wind as local indicators for adjusting safe activity boundaries. The single-site design and nine-informant sample limit transferability to farming communities with different socio-ecological settings. The findings inform climate-adaptation and disaster-risk policies that seek to integrate indigenous knowledge with formal mitigation strategies in vulnerable mountain landscapes. The study reframes Tenggerese nrimo from passive fatalism as part of a proactive cultural risk-management system linking psychological resilience, spatial habituation, and ecological calculation.
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